Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

Riot Platforms produced 1,473 BTC in the first quarter of 2026, with daily output down 4% year over year. Net revenue for the quarter was $289.5 million, and computing power deployment reached 42.5 EH/s, up 26% year over year. Total electricity costs fell to 3.0 cents per kilowatt-hour, down 21% year over year.

Gate News message, on April 3, the tokenized real-world assets platform Ondo Finance has frozen the 477,000 USDY stolen by the Drift attacker.

Gate News message, April 3, data shows that in the first quarter of 2026, the total stablecoin supply increased by about $8.0 billion to a record $315.0 billion. This quarter, stablecoins accounted for 75% of total crypto trading volume, reaching a historical high. At the same time, the total stablecoin trading value surpassed $2.8 trillion. Among them, retail-scale transfers (typically associated with individual users) fell 16%, the largest decline in history; automated trading activity surged, with bots accounting for 76% of all stablecoin trading volume.

Gate News message, on April 3, the crypto wallet app Leap Wallet announced that it will stop operating on May 28, and users need to complete asset migration as soon as possible. The shutdown scope includes: Compass Wallet (browser extension, iOS and Android versions), Leap WebApp, Swapfast, Leap Cosmos Hub validator nodes, and Leap Cosmos

Gate News message, whale address "0x7f5" has closed its $CL long position, recording a profit of $913,789. According to Onchain Lens, this whale has executed long positions on $CL three times, generating total profits of $2.7 million with a 100% success rate. Previously, the whale reopened a 109,646

Gate News update: April 3, according to Lookonchain monitoring, trader loracle.hl is selling 450,000 HYPE (about $15.98 million). Over the past 9 hours, the address has sold 311,946 HYPE (about $10.97 million) via limit orders, with 138,054 HYPE (about $4.91 million) remaining to be sold.

China’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Fu Cong, addressed the Security Council, stressing that the Middle East conflict was caused by the United States and Israel’s use of military force against Iran. He called for an end to military operations to prevent the situation from worsening, condemned attacks on innocent civilians, and urged the Security Council to take a fair position in order to cool down the situation and restore dialogue.

Gate News消息，April 3, according to Trader T’s monitoring, yesterday (April 2) spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $9.02 million. Among them, Fidelity FBTC recorded inflows of $7.29 million, VanEck HODL recorded inflows of $4.74 million, BlackRock IBIT recorded outflows of $3.01 million, and the remaining ETFs had no capital movement that day.

Google released the multimodal model Gemma 4 on April 3. It supports text, image, and audio inputs and generates text outputs. Its context window can hold 256,000 tokens, supports 140 languages, and is designed for a variety of environments, including four different model sizes.

Gate News message, April 3, Web3 magical chess platform Pixie Chess completed a $5.2 million seed round of financing, led by Paradigm, with participation from SEED CLUB and some angel investors.

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, CHCUSD100 () has dropped by 1% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market activity.

SolanaFloor data shows the Drift protocol vulnerability's affected scope has expanded to 20 protocols, with losses exceeding $10 million, including Prime Numbers Fi and Gauntlet. Most affected protocols have paused the relevant functionality and are taking countermeasures.

Gate News message, April 3, the newly released ranking of CodeArena, an AI programming-focused competition under the globally renowned model blind test leaderboard LMArena, was published. Alibaba’s latest generation large language model, Qwen 3.6-Plus, ranked second on the global leaderboard, surpassing international giants such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI, becoming the highest-ranked Chinese model on that leaderboard.

Gate News message, April 3, Intergaze, a zero-gas-fee chain optimized for NFTs, announced its official shutdown. All users must complete asset withdrawals within 14 days before the bridge is shut down. The NFTs of NFT holders will be migrated to the new platform in the second half of May.

Gate News, April 3, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, BR (Bedrock) is trading at $0.16122. In the past 24 hours, it has increased by 41.99%, reaching a high of $0.17303 and a low of $0.10486. The 24-hour trading volume has reached $1.3479 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $42.1187 million. Bedrock is a multi-asset supported liquidity re-staking protocol that has launched a Bitcoin staking product, uniBTC. As a BTC liquid staking asset, uniBTC enables users to earn staking rewards while maintaining the liquidity of their assets, opening up a new yield opportunity in the trillion-level Bitcoin market.

As of April 2, the U.S. XRP spot ETF had a total net inflow of $646,000 in a single day, with the Bitwise XRP ETF seeing a net inflow of $1.3138 million, for total net inflows reaching $378 million. The Canary XRP ETF had a net outflow of $1.2492 million in a single day, with total net inflows reaching $420 million. The total assets net asset value of the XRP spot ETF is $917 million.

Genius has published a new prediction event. Data shows that the probability that FDV exceeds $100 million after one day from opening is 74%, and the probability that it exceeds $200 million is 33%. At the same time, Genius announced it will complete the TGE by April 12, with a total airdrop amount of 70 million tokens.

On April 3, U.S. stock market closed: the Dow Jones fell slightly by 0.13%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose by 0.11% and 0.18%, respectively. Crypto sector performance was mixed: Solana rose 9.41%, while most other digital assets fell. msx.com launched hundreds of decentralized RWA tokens, involving multiple well-known U.S. listed companies.

Gate News reports that on April 3, Polymarket announced it has reached an exclusive prediction market partnership with Spain’s La Liga. La Liga becomes the first major European football league to partner with a prediction market platform. Following the agreement, official match prediction markets for teams such as Real Madrid and FC Barcelona will be available exclusively on Polymarket.